How complicit were German and Austrian banks in the Holocaust?
Issued: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT Professor Gerald Feldman, historian at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture at the University of Glasgow on 23 January 2007. Professor Feldman’s lecture will look at the extent to which German and Austrian banks were complicit in the Holocaust. Professor Feldman said: “If the Holocaust is understood to include the expropriation and despoliation of Jews in Germany and in the countries occupied by Germany, then the German and Austrian banks played a key role in carrying out these measures. These banks also provided credits to enterprises and SS agencies involved in the employment of Jewish slave labour and handled other banking business for them as well. It is much more difficult, however, to determine the degree to which they were aware of the ‘final solution’ itself. “As research has advanced so has the interest of historians in complicity in and knowledge about the Holocaust on the part of those n
